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arxiv: astro-ph/0401307 · v1 · pith:MR44YVHPnew · submitted 2004-01-15 · 🌌 astro-ph

Search for non-Gaussianity in pixel, harmonic and wavelet space: compared and combined

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keywords waveletharmonicpixelspacedatamapsnon-gaussianityalmost
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We present a comparison between three approaches to test non-Gaussianity of cosmic microwave background data. The Minkowski functionals, the empirical process method and the skewness of wavelet coefficients are applied to maps generated from non-standard inflationary models and to Gaussian maps with point sources included. We discuss the different power of the pixel, harmonic and wavelet space methods on these simulated almost full-sky data (with Planck like noise). We also suggest a new procedure consisting of a combination of statistics in pixel, harmonic and wavelet space.

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